A Translation for Our Time? Tim Parks The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images A print of Samuel Johnson walking with James Boswell, published in The Graphic, December 1884 Do contemporary approaches to translation tell us something about our times? Samuel Johnson was the first to offer a brief history of attitudes to translation, observing how some periods produce many translations, others very few, and how each period tends to privilege different criteria when translating. He notes that the Gree
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